You know you’re on dodgy territory when journalists and lobbying groups start to claim a piece of legislation is badly drafted. Unless you’re a trained lawyer – and one with a specialism in the area at that – it’s pretty difficult to tell if statute is poorly written.
Of course, as can been seen from this week’s analysis, this didn’t stop a storm of criticism hitting the Bribery Act, which must now surely rank as the most politically-charged piece of legislation to impact on corporates since the Human Rights Act of 1998.
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